Hardware Hacker Club
Resource resources, local and nonlocal
Fine meeting last night; the club's obviously off to a good start.
I'm interested in resources: Where does everyone get the stuff that they get?
o Information these days flows heavily via the Internet -- but WHERE on the Internet? Search engines cough up a lot, but what else do you use? Libraries -- UNM or RGVL or ...? Any bookstore especially appealing?
o Mail order pretty much uses the Internet as a front end these days, so whom do you like to patronize? Jameco, All, Digi-Key, Newark, Allied, ASS or ...?
o Local electronics retailers -- Electronic Parts, Walker Electronics, Rodeo Schlock, Home Despot or ...? Any wholesalers willing to do small/tiny/single-item sales to hobbyists? (I still find Rodeo Schlock useful on occasion, but they seem to be working rather hard at becoming useless for by-the-part sales.)
o Surplus Electronics -- Surplus City, Electronic Surplus or ...? Surplus City is open during normal business hours; Electronic Surplus is (or was) unpredictable -- they mostly do EBay these days.
o Where are your favorite dumpsters located? Admittedly, this might be a touchy subject for any (Or all!) of various reasons. ;^)
So, let's hear from you!
d
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A clean house is a sure sign of a broken computer.
Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429rl(fe) (505)255-4642 mtmduke@qwest.net
I'm interested in resources: Where does everyone get the stuff that they get?
o Information these days flows heavily via the Internet -- but WHERE on the Internet? Search engines cough up a lot, but what else do you use? Libraries -- UNM or RGVL or ...? Any bookstore especially appealing?
o Mail order pretty much uses the Internet as a front end these days, so whom do you like to patronize? Jameco, All, Digi-Key, Newark, Allied, ASS or ...?
o Local electronics retailers -- Electronic Parts, Walker Electronics, Rodeo Schlock, Home Despot or ...? Any wholesalers willing to do small/tiny/single-item sales to hobbyists? (I still find Rodeo Schlock useful on occasion, but they seem to be working rather hard at becoming useless for by-the-part sales.)
o Surplus Electronics -- Surplus City, Electronic Surplus or ...? Surplus City is open during normal business hours; Electronic Surplus is (or was) unpredictable -- they mostly do EBay these days.
o Where are your favorite dumpsters located? Admittedly, this might be a touchy subject for any (Or all!) of various reasons. ;^)
So, let's hear from you!
d
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A clean house is a sure sign of a broken computer.
Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429rl(fe) (505)255-4642 mtmduke@qwest.net
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Permalink Reply by Tim Carothers on -
From my experience as far as mail order and internet it depends on what you want. The resources there are endless.
I have found most local stores a bit overpriced but A-1 Communications in Santa fe and the black hole in los Alamos use to be good. I have not been to either in awhile.
Going on the cheap or scrap pickup I have been able to pickup some good equipment from goodwill for next to nothing ( Mainly because they have no clue what the item is), I keep a network of contacts in the colleges, most colleges will give stuff away when they change out equipment, when I have the free space I put up flyers and submit to companies that I will haul off their old equipment free of charge ( this one is slow but pans out the best), For dumpster dives just look for the types of businesses that sell or use what your looking for.
Speaking of resources, is there a scrap pile that people can donate to or collect from?
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Permalink Reply by WhiteRabbit on -
Information - One of my favorite publishers of tech books is O'Reilly. Their focus is on programming, but they have started expanding into other areas, like microcontrollers, and publish that great rag, Make.
Mail Order - A wise man once told me, "If you can't get it from Digi-Key, it probably isn't worth getting." I've found this to be mostly true when it comes to electronics.
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